Marilyn Maddalena Withrow
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Who Am I?

Professional Quilt Appraiser
Professional Quilt Judge 
Quilt Historian 
Quilt Designer 
Speaker -- see my other pages for detailed program and workshop descriptions
"Potatoes to Patchwork" 
 "Quilting in Russia"
  "Quilting and Cruising -- What a Concept!"
  "History of Hawaiian Quilting"
Judging and Appraising
 
Programs "in the works" --  Quilting from the Bible
                                                Women and the War Years
 
 

Quilting is my passion.
Southern Oregon is my new home.
Eugene is my new husband.
Finally I am able to get back to my roots, back to the simple life, in a small town with fascinating and friendly people.
There is time now  -- time for quilting, for gardening, for animals, for travel, for new friends and new adventures.
Come along and enjoy them with me!   

Appraising in Roseburg, Oregon
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Marilyn appraising a Yellow Pinwheel Quilt

On a personal note, I have three sons, two daughters-in-law, three grandsons and one granddaughter.  My new hubby has two sons, one daughter, one daughter-in-law, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.  (He's older !)  When we get together, we sure fill up a dining room!  After all, isn't that what life is really all about?     

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Relaxing at last.

Just the two of us.

Marilyn and Eugene in a Lake Tahoe cabin during an annual family birthday celebration. 

In the midst of moving.....
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Three generations: Marilyn, her Mother Winnie, and son Scott (taken 6 months before Winnie's death)

Some of my favorite sites:
 
www.sylvias-studio.com -- Sylvia Landman Rasmussen
 
www.quiltersmuse.com  -- Pat Cummings

Professional Memberships: 

American Quilt Study Guild

American Quilter's Society

California Heritage Quilt Project 

Museum of the American Quilter's Society

National Quilting Association -- (former Publications Chair for the Quilting Quarterly, the Journal of the NQA)

NCQC (Northern California Quilt Council)

Quilter's Hall of Fame, Marion, Indiana

Piecemakers of Rogue River Quilt Guild

Mountain Stars Quilt Guild, Southern Oregon 

I also hold memberships in various museums where they focus on quilting and quilt history.

 

In addition to an interest in quilting, I've been involved in community theater and music most of my life.  For three years I was a member of the Board of Directors of SARTA (Sacramento Area Regional Theater Alliance) and judged musical theater productions.  I've directed the musical play "Quilters," twice -- in 1988 and 1999.

My Russian program was highlighted on HGTV's "Simply Quilts" show #713, and I was co-hostess of KIXE-TV's PBS show in Redding, CA, "North State Quilts," for two years. 

Gene and I love to travel, and have been halfway around the world since our marriage in 2004 in Hawaii -- to South Africa, Brazil, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, St. Helena, Barbados, etc.  Our newest adventure? Moving to a three-acre farm in the country between Gold Hill and Rogue River, Oregon, near the Rogue River. New quilter friends to meet, new quilts to appraise, new and beautiful shows to judge, new country to explore, new rivers to fish -- what a life!

Marilyn Maddalena Withrow
"The Quilted Rooster"
Quilts to Crow About!
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